My First Attempt at Carving a Figure

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Carving by John Godsey

This was sent to us from John Godsey:

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My Mother the Car – My Son the Ventriloquist

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Bob Abdou sent in this ditty to share with everyone:

Hey Dan and Steve,

Here is a video for one of the strangest ideas for a tv show my mother the car from 1965. Here Jerry Van Dyke is a ventriloquist so bad it’s good they even made a model toy from the show.

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Justin Ver Burg -Bellingham Ventriloquist

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Justin Ver Burg of Bellingham, WA, sent us this clip of him on the local evening news magazine.

My partner and webmaster Steve, met Justin back in the mid 90’s when he lived in Bellingham. Steve tells me Justin built his own figure and is a very talented ventriloquist.

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Happy Friday the 13th….Name the Mystery Ventriloquist

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Frank Marshall The Ventriloquist?

Bill Smith posed a great question and that was did Frank Marshall ever perform ventriloquism.

We all know that he made wonderful ventriloquist figures but I could not give a definitive answer as to him ever performing.

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